Hidden Children

Hidden Children of the Holocaust

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Overview

Among the small number of European Jewish children still alive at the end of the Holocaust, thousands survived because they were hidden.

(a) Some were in hiding, alone or with relatives, in attics, cellars, etc.

(b) Some had false identity papers.

(c) Some were entrusted by their parents to Christian families or religious institutions.

(d) Some, left abandoned, survived as street children.

(e) Some joined partisan groups.